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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Livre 4, Fable 26</span><span class="fp-text">ÉPILOGUE, LE POÈTE À EUTYCHE</span></div>
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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Liber IV, Fabula XXVI</span><span class="fp-text notranslate"><span class="fp-correction" title="IDEM POETA  (orig.)"><span class="fp-difference">EPILOGUS, POETA AD EUTYCHUM</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="EPILOGUS, POETA AD EUTYCHUM  (texte subst.)"><span class="fp-difference">IDEM POETA</span></span> </span></div>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Il me reste encore bien des sujets à traiter, mais je m'arrête à dessein ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">d'abord, pour ne pas vous paraître importun</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">au milieu de vos nombreuses affaires ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">ensuite, pour laisser matière</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">à qui voudrait s'exercer dans ce genre de poésie&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">quoique cependant elle soit tellement abondante et fertile,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">que l'ouvrier manque à l'ouvrage et non l'ouvrage à l'ouvrier.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Je réclame la récompense que vous avez promise à ma brièveté.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Soyez fidèle à votre parole ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">car chaque jour me rapproche de la mort&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et j'aurai d'autant moins à profiter du bienfait</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">que vous mettrez plus de retard à me l'accorder.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Si vous vous décidez à l'instant, l'usage aura plus de durée.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">14&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Plus tôt j'aurai reçu, plus longtemps je jouirai.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">15&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Tandis qu'il me reste encore quelques années d'une languissante vie,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">16&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">c'est le moment de me protéger. Un jour, votre bienveillance</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">17&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">cherchera vainement à secourir un débile vieillard ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">18&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">ces efforts seront inutiles&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">19&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">la mort prochaine exigera son tribut.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">20&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Mais je pense que c'est folie d'adresser des prières</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">21&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">à un ami naturellement enclin à la bienveillance.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">22&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Souvent le coupable obtient le pardon par ses aveux&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">23&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">combien n'est-il pas plus juste de l'accorder à un innocent&nbsp;!</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">24&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Voilà votre rôle ; avant vous, d'autres l'ont rempli ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">25&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">plus tard, d'autres le rempliront encore.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">26&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Prononcez comme vous le dicteront la conscience et la bonne foi,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">27&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et faites que j'aie à me réjouir de votre jugement.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">28&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">J'ai dépassé les bornes que je m'étais prescrites&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">29&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">mais on peut difficilement contenir une âme,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">30&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">convaincue de son innocence</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">31&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et en butte aux calomnies des méchants.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">32&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Qui sont-ils, direz-vous. —&nbsp;Ils se démasqueront un jour.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">33&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Pour moi, tout enfant, j'ai lu cette maxime&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">34&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">«&nbsp;Pour un plébéien, murmurer tout haut, c'est un sacrilège,&nbsp;»</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">35&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et tant que j'aurai l'esprit sain, je me la rappellerai.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Supersunt mihi <span class="fp-correction" title="que  (orig. avec var. orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">quae</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="quae  (var. orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">que</span></span> scribam, sed parco sciens ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">primum esse tibi ne videar molestior,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate"><span class="fp-correction" title="destringit  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">distringit</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="distringit  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">destringit</span></span> quem multarum rerum varietas ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">dein si quis eadem forte <span class="fp-correction" title="conare  (orig. avec f. de gram.)"><span class="fp-difference">conari</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="conari  (f. de gram. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">conare</span></span> velit,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">habere ut possit aliquid operis residui ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">quamvis <span class="fp-correction" title="nature  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">materiae</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="materiae  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">nature</span></span> tanta abundet copia</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate"><span class="fp-correction" title="laboris  (orig. avec f. de gram.)"><span class="fp-difference">labori</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="labori  (f. de gram. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">laboris</span></span> faber ut desit, non fabro labor.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate"><span class="fp-correction" title="Brevitatis  (orig. avec f. de gram.)"><span class="fp-difference">Brevitati</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="Brevitati  (f. de gram. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">Brevitatis</span></span> nostrae <span class="fp-correction" title="nimium  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">praemium</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="praemium  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">nimium</span></span> ut reddas peto</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">quod es pollicitus ; exhibe vocis fidem.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Nam vita morti propior est cotidie</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">et hoc minus <span class="fp-correction" title="veniet  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">perveniet</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="perveniet  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">veniet</span></span> ad me muneris</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">quo plus consumet temporis dilatio.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Si cito rem perages, usus fiet longior ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">14&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">fruar diutius, si celerius coepero.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">15&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Languentis aevi <span class="fp-manuscript" title="Afficher le manuscrit (édition paléographique)"
>[<a target="fppithoeanus" href="http://www.archive.org/stream/lesfablesdephdr00robegoog#page/n131/mode/1up">p.68</a>]</span> dum sunt aliquae reliquiae,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">16&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">auxilio locus est&nbsp;: olim senio debilem</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">17&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">frustra adjuvare bonitas nitetur tua,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">18&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">cum jam <span class="fp-correction" title="desideret  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">desiderit</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="desiderit  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">desideret</span></span> esse beneficio utilius</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">19&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">et mors vicina flagitabit debitum.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">20&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Stultum admovere tibi <span class="fp-correction" title="preceps  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">preces</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="preces  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">preceps</span></span> #V.exis.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">21&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Proclivis ultro cum sit misericordia,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">22&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate"><span class="fp-correction" title="sepe  (orig. avec var. orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">saepe</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="saepe  (var. orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">sepe</span></span> impetravit veniam confessus reus ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">23&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">quanto innocenti justius debet dari&nbsp;?</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">24&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Tuae sunt partes ; fuerunt aliorum ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">25&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">dein simili gyro venient aliorum vices.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">26&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Decerne quod religio, quod patitur fides,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">27&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">et gratulari me tacere judicio tuo.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">28&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Excedit animus quem proposuit terminum ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">29&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">sed difficulter continetur spiritus,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">30&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">integritatis qui sincerae conscius</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">31&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">a noxiorum premitur <span class="fp-correction" title="insolentis  (orig. avec f. d'orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">insolentiis</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="insolentiis  (f. d'orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">insolentis</span></span>.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">32&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Qui sint requires ; apparebunt tempore.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">33&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Ego quondam legi quam <span class="fp-correction" title="pueri  (orig. avec f. de gram.)"><span class="fp-difference">puer</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="puer  (f. de gram. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">pueri</span></span> sententiam</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">34&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">«&nbsp;Palam muttire plebeio <span class="fp-correction" title="periculum  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">piaculum</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="piaculum  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">periculum</span></span> est&nbsp;»,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">35&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">dum sanitas constabit pulchre <span class="fp-correction" title="memini  (orig. avec f. de gram.)"><span class="fp-difference">meminero</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="meminero  (f. de gram. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">memini</span></span>.</span></span></span></td>
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<div class="fp-translator">Traduit par M. E. Panckoucke, 1864</div>

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